modern person;  people of today
 modern Japanese;  current written style
 child of the times;  modern kid;  kids of today;  with-it youngster
 present-day science;  modern science
 modern language;  contemporary language;  living language;  modern Japanese;  Japanese as spoken since the Meiji period or alternatively, since the end of World War II
 modern civilization;  modern civilisation
 modern Japanese (esp. as a school subject)
 modern version;  modern edition;  updated, contemporary edition
 contemporary literature;  modern literature
 contemporary philosophy;  modern thought
 contemporary novel;  modern novel
 a series of paperbacks published since 1964 by Kodansha
 contemporary life;  present-day life
 contemporary art museum;  museum of contemporary art
 word of recent origin;  neologism;  recent word;  modern term
 modern kana orthography (1946 reform, amended 1986);  new kana orthography
 modernization;  modernisation
 modern disease;  disease of our time
 current (present-day) English
 modern kana orthography (1946 reform, amended 1986);  new kana orthography
 Modern Monetary Theory;  Modern Money Theory;  neo-chartalism
 contemporary dance;  modern dance
 gendaika;  modern, non-traditional school of ikebana